Current mempools are kind of hybrid structures - they serve two
purposes:
1. mempool with a lock is basically static sized allocator with
pre-allocated free items
2. mempool without a lock is a doubly-linked list of preallocated items
The first kind of usage could be easily replaced with jemalloc small
sized arena objects and thread-local caches.
The second usage not-so-much and we need to keep this (in
libdns:message.c) for performance reasons.
Previously, we only had capability to trace the mempool gets and puts,
but for debugging, it's sometimes also important to keep track how many
and where do the memory pools get created and destroyed. This commit
adds such tracking capability.
The jemalloc non-standard API fits nicely with our memory contexts, so
just rewrite the memory context internals to use the non-public API.
There's just one caveat - since we no longer track the size of the
allocation for isc_mem_allocate/isc_mem_free combination, we need to use
sallocx() to get real allocation size in both allocator and deallocator
because otherwise the sizes would not match.
The ISC_MEM_DEBUGSIZE and ISC_MEM_DEBUGCTX did sanity checks on matching
size and memory context on the memory returned to the allocator. Those
will no longer needed when most of the allocator will be replaced with
jemalloc.
There's global variable called `malloc_conf` that can be used to
configure jemalloc behaviour at the program startup. We use following
configuration:
* xmalloc:true - abort-on-out-of-memory enabled.
* background_thread:true - Enable internal background worker threads
to handle purging asynchronously.
* metadata_thp:auto - allow jemalloc to use transparent huge page
(THP) for internal metadata initially, but may begin to do so when
metadata usage reaches certain level.
* dirty_decay_ms:30000 - Approximate time in milliseconds from the
creation of a set of unused dirty pages until an equivalent set of
unused dirty pages is purged and/or reused.
* muzzy_decay_ms:30000 - Approximate time in milliseconds from the
creation of a set of unused muzzy pages until an equivalent set of
unused muzzy pages is purged and/or reused.
More information about the specific meaning can be found in the jemalloc
manpage or online at http://jemalloc.net/jemalloc.3.html
Previously, we only had capability to trace the memory gets and puts,
but for debugging, it's sometimes also important to keep track how many
and where do the memory contexts get created and destroyed. This commit
adds such tracking capability.
configuring with --enable-mutex-atomics flagged these incorrectly
initialised variables on systems where pthread_mutex_init doesn't
just zero out the structure.
There is no possibility for mpctx->items to be NULL at the point where
the code was removed, since we enforce that fillcount > 0, if
mpctx->items == NULL when isc_mempool_get is called, then we will
allocate fillcount more items and add to the mpctx->items list.
When AddressSanitizer is in use, disable the internal mempool
implementation and redirect the isc_mempool_get to isc_mem_get
(and similarly for isc_mempool_put). This is the method recommended
by the AddressSanitizer authors for tracking allocations and
deallocations instead of custom poison/unpoison code (see
https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerManualPoisoning).
Instead of calling isc_tls_initialize()/isc_tls_destroy() explicitly use
gcc/clang attributes on POSIX and DLLMain on Windows to initialize and
shutdown OpenSSL library.
This resolves the issue when isc_nm_create() / isc_nm_destroy() was
called multiple times and it would call OpenSSL library destructors from
isc_nm_destroy().
At the same time, since we now have introduced the ctor/dtor for libisc,
this commit moves the isc_mem API initialization (the list of the
contexts) and changes the isc_mem_checkdestroyed() to schedule the
checking of memory context on library unload instead of executing the
code immediately.
The ISC_MEM_CHECKOVERRUN would add canary byte at the end of every
allocations and check whether the canary byte hasn't been changed at the
free time. The AddressSanitizer and valgrind memory checks surpases
simple checks like this, so there's no need to actually keep the code
inside the allocator.
This is yet another step into unlocking some parts of the memory
contexts. All the regularly updated variables has been turned into
atomic types, so we can later remove the locks when updating various
counters.
Also unlock as much code as possible without breaking anything.
On 24-core machine, the tests would crash because we would run out of
the hazard pointers. We now adjust the number of hazard pointers to be
in the <128,256> interval based on the number of available cores.
Note: This is just a band-aid and needs a proper fix.
Previously, the applications using libisc would be able to override the
internal memory methods with own implementation. This was no longer
possible, but the extra level of indirection was not removed. This
commit removes the extra level of indirection for the memory methods and
the default_memalloc() and default_memfree().
The internal memory allocator had an extra code to keep a list of blocks
for small size allocation. This would help to reduce the interactions
with the system malloc as the memory would be already allocated from the
system, but there's an extra cost associated with that - all the
allocations/deallocations must be locked, effectively eliminating any
optimizations in the system allocator targeted at multi-threaded
applications. While the isc_mem API is still using locks pretty heavily,
this is a first step into reducing the memory allocation/deallocation
contention.
Created isc_refcount_decrement_expect macro to test conditionally
the return value to ensure it is in expected range. Converted
unchecked isc_refcount_decrement to use isc_refcount_decrement_expect.
Converted INSIST(isc_refcount_decrement()...) to isc_refcount_decrement_expect.
mem.c:add_trace_entry() -> isc_hash_function() -> isc_siphash24()
129 for (; in != end; in += 8) {
6. byte_swapping: Performing a byte swapping operation on
in implies that it came from an external source, and is
therefore tainted.
130 uint64_t m = U8TO64_LE(in);
this corrects some style glitches such as:
```
long_function_call(arg, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, "str"
"ing");
```
...by adjusting the penalties for breaking strings and call
parameter lists.
This commits removes superfluous checks when using the isc_refcount API.
Examples of superfluous checks:
1. The isc_refcount_decrement function ensures there was not underflow,
so this check is superfluous:
INSIST(isc_refcount_decrement(&r) > 0);
2 .The isc_refcount_destroy() includes check whether the counter
is zero, therefore this is superfluous:
INSIST(isc_refcount_decrement(&r) == 1 && isc_refcount_destroy(&r));
Previously the libisc allocator had ability to run unlocked when threading was
disabled. As the threading is now always on, remove the ISC_MEMFLAG_NOLOCK
memory flag as it serves no purpose.
The isc_mem_createx() function was only used in the tests to eliminate using the
default flags (which as of writing this commit message was ISC_MEMFLAG_INTERNAL
and ISC_MEMFLAG_FILL). This commit removes the isc_mem_createx() function from
the public API.
Previously, the isc_mem_create() and isc_mem_createx() functions took `max_size`
and `target_size` as first two arguments. Those values were never used in the
BIND 9 code. The refactoring removes those arguments and let BIND 9 always use
the default values.
Previously, the isc_mem_create() and isc_mem_createx() functions could have
failed because of failed memory allocation. As this was no longer true and the
functions have always returned ISC_R_SUCCESS, the have been refactored to return
void.
- removed some dead code
- dns_zone_setdbtype is now void as it could no longer return
anything but ISC_R_SUCCESS; calls to it no longer check for a result
- controlkeylist_fromconfig() is also now void
- fixed a whitespace error
The json-c have previously leaked into the global namespace leading
to forced -I<include_path> for every compilation unit using isc/xml.h
header. This MR fixes the usage making the caller object opaque.
The libxml2 have previously leaked into the global namespace leading
to forced -I<include_path> for every compilation unit using isc/xml.h
header. This MR fixes the usage making the caller object opaque.
